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Maddy Prior is a British folk singer.

Maddy was born on 14th August 1947 in Blackpool. While in her teens she moved to St Albans. She met up with Tim Hart at a folk festival in Keele. Together they recorded two albums before becoming founding members of Steeleye Span in 1970. They were the backbone of the group until the early 1980s when ill-health forced Tim into semi-retirement. Maddy married bassist Rick Kemp and produced a daughter, Rose Kemp, who launched her own recording career in 2003. Although best known as the powerful soprano in Steeleye Span, Maddy has recorded session work, albums of her own songs and eclectic styles from medieval, through folk-rock, prog-rock and traditional songs. She left Steeleye Span in the early 1990s and returned in 1999.

1 Discography

1.1 with Steeleye Span

Maddy Prior was on all the Steeleye Span albums from Hark! The Village Wait (1970) to Tempted and Tried (1989). Then returned for The Journey (1999) and subsequent albums.

1.2 Solo Albums

1.3 Tim Hart and Maddy Prior

1.4 Maddy Prior and Tim Hart

1.5 Maddy Prior and June Tabor

1.6 Maddy Prior, John Kirkpatrick and Sydney Carter

1.7 Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band

1.8 As a session singer

She appeared on these albums:

Prior, Maddy

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